Wrong Place

The soft toys, story books, the vibrant pink and white color of the room made it clear that whosoever the room belongs to is a toddler or a pre-teen girl.

He has been transported there naked. He picked a pillow from the bed built up for a small child and hid his pelvis region with the pillow supported by his left hand. He wished to find a towel, a better thing to wrap around and yet examining the room at the very same time.

His eyes fell on the baby pink wall clock. It was decorated with animal ceramic models coated in pink and some in white which sparkled, these were stuck swirling around the wall clock. It was 02:17. He wondered whether it's early morning or afternoon as there was only this one main opening to the out but it was shut.

His eyes searching for a towel laid on a table calendar, it had things written in child's handwriting. All the dates before sixteen were circled and crossed. Meanwhile, the date sixteen was only circled. The month was January and the year 2015. So, he time travelled to the assigned year and month but wrong place.

He sat on his toes examining the calendar if he really got it right. He is now realizing that the scientist never mentioned neither the exact time nor the place. Mesopotamia or Africa, his earlier mentioned time travel place, is a huge one in itself. He mentioned 1 m.y.a or 5000 BCE without mentioning the time, day or anything specific. Even in this time travel he mentioned January 2015 but didn't specify either the time nor the date. This made Valentine realize that this invention of George works but on uncertainty. He hits his head on the wall for the stupidity he has done in believing the stupid scientist and not analyzing or using his own head beforehand.

He thought to himself that he just has to hide for an hour and soon he will be back as told. He glanced at the wall clock to see its 02:23 now, 6 minutes have passed, just 54 more. It can't be that hard.

He hears the noise of door cracking on the wall because of being pushed open harshly out of the blue. A little girl comes in and shuts the door behind her and the movement she turns back, she witnesses a young man naked just his pelvis area covered by her pillow staring at what she was doing just now.

Valentine noticed the girl shocked and tried to explain by uttering as soon as his mouth received the signal, "L-Let me explain-".

"How did you enter inside? Why are you taking cover here? And most of all, Why are you naked?" The girl bombarded him with all the questions in a single breath.

Valentine expected the girl to shout out loud, calling her parents or guardians in the room but he was astonished by how she hadn't yet.

"It's hard to explain how I entered inside. I apologize for being here naked but please do not freak out, I have my reasons" even though the girl didn't look freaked out but still he was worried. Making things hard for him is the last thing he should do.

The girl went out and Valentine thought he had unfortunately freaked the little girl and she may be calling out her guardian. It would be better to talk out to an understanding adult than to explain it all to a child only if the adult would not turn out to be a sensitive freak.

She returned back with some clothes in her hands and she handed it to Valentine. "It's cold outside and we need to evacuate this place soon as it is not safe either anymore" the girl was worried about something and he had no idea why and for what. Valentine looked at the clothes. They were some adult-sized English clothes. They were pretty famous in 2014 and 2015 and this brand was the only one rocking all over the western part of the continent.

"Change fast" the girl sat on her bed facing the opposite direction and covered her eyes, "I am not seeing a thing; make it quick"

Valentine was shocked but he didn't want to be naked at the same time and started wearing what she handed over to him.

"It is still hard to believe that there are survivors" she sighed, "I thought they killed everybody, how are you still alive because the only one left alive are the ones who succeed to make a run to another village safe from the attackers"

"What is going on?" He was the one who was now freaked out, "Who the hell is killing people and why?"

"You don't know what is going on so why are you hiding" she was just about to turn back to continue with her arguments.

"Don't turn back. I am still changing" he was wearing pants. She turned back to her initial position and covered her eyes.

“I told you to change quick”

“It takes time ya know”